depression help: okay I’m depressed alot, especially at night…I cry for hours for no reason at all…and I’m sick 95% of the time. - Help.com

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Is your only physical symptom stomach pain?

When I hear of people that feel like cr*p but can’t get a diagnosis, the first thing I think of is Fibromyalgia http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fibr…
Does that sound like it might be it?

depression can come from a number of sources, I have MS and depression can be a physical representation of it, but it could be anything - you’re doctor should help you more

I’m personally very jaded against medications, but that’s not good advice. BUT your doctor can just expect you to take a pill and think it will go away. you need to see a therapist of some sort as well. They can help you work through this.

It’s either like toul said and the depression is coming from a physical problem, or the other way around. The funny thing with psychological distress is it can often manisfest as physical conditions, like stomach pains and tension headaches from all the stress. A lot of people haven’t even known they’ve had depression or whatever until tehy’ve gone to the doctor numerous times about physical complaints. Mayb, if you can get rid of the depression, the physical will go away.

Have you tried seeing a counsellor?

Fibromyalgia is one of those difficult to diagnose conditions. Here, read this http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/… and find all the information you can on it on the web. Then talk to a doctor about testing you for it.

Btw, Fibromyalgia can cause depression.

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Run–don’t walk–back to the doctor and tell him/her what you’ve told us. And then just run or walk . . . exercise is really therapeutic. A Danish study found exercise to be as effective in treating some forms of depression as medicines. Anyway, get out of the house . . . you may also meet some interesting people. You gotta have FRIENDS, kid! Go out and be a friend! P.S. Don’t worry about what people are thinking. There’s only one God, and only His judgments really count! Nobody’s going to kill and eat you! Be yourself! Do something you enjoy at least once a day. DO get back to the doctor! And start enjoying life–it is a GIFT, you know!

I am at the most desperate state in my 47 years on this earth. Dr. has me on Zoloft and Effexor which I haven’t started because I can’t afford it, with so many other “have to have” drugs.
Sure I would have ended it except for Religious beliefs.
Never quite had the words delivered to me that made me relate so well. I suffer from a traumatic life overload in the past years… I suffer from Fibro, Heart problems, huge kidney stones, deg. disc, divorce after 25 years. He just walked away with another woman, after me being so ill. Loss of parents and beloved father in law, loss of sister, 14 mo. niece, and about 18 hospital stays in 4 years…some in Intensive care. Didn’t realize it but my hole was being dug with each hurt. Worked for 26 years, then had to stop. Alone so much, because of new hubby’s work. Married him, a friend of 10 years and do not know if I’d be alive without his loving care and patience. Don’t know why he did it after seeing me go through everything. Can’t even cook him supper. The bed is my only life line, and it’s becoming no comfort at times. Severe infomnia, racing thoughts. On drugs for so much…and never leave the house without having to turn around and come back.
It is almost like a cancer that will not kill. It causes all the pain, dysfunction and hurt…and you just have to keep living it…or in better words, not living. I spend 90 percent of my time in bed. It has swallowed me, almost….I keep my head sticking out of the beast’s mouth, but live in horror of him swallowing.
I’m lost and do not know what to do I have no friends, family nor fellow sufferers to communicate with in real life. Real life. Now that’s a good one. I forgot my real life. I’m terrified. Alone when he’s at work which is a LOT.
Wish I could have just ONE wish granted. But this is not a fairy tale, is it?
Katie

I think, Kaybarbe, that you’re going to have to develop something you don’t currently have: a winning attitude. It sounds like you’re resigning from life. I think you should GET UP and cook your husband supper. How’s that for a start. And you tell the fatigue, and the pain and the depression to take a running start off a cliff, that these symptoms are not going to rule your life. You must tell yourself that you are going to ttranscend these feelings, that you are going to take charge from now on. The more positive actions you undertake, the less hold all of thewe things will have on you. Things have happened in your life that make you want to give up. Well, you can give up and stay in bed all day and night, or you can GET UP and LIVE. You have NOT gotten any better by staying in bed, right? So it’s time to try something else . . . it’s time to push these negative feelings into the back of your mind and to take control. OK? Now GET UP and make some kind of supper for your husband . . . it will be the first step in regaining control of your life.